2005 Annual Meeting Highlights
One Hundred and Ninth Annual Meeting March 3 - 5, 2005 | |
LOCATIONRadisson Plaza Hotel | |
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PROGRAM | |
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005 | |
Session 1 | From the Home Front to the Battlefield during the Civil War, Steven E. Woodworth presiding, Texas Christian University Why Texans Fought East of the Mississippi: The Effects of Local Attachments on Texas Soldiers, Charles David Grear, Texas Christian University My Dearest Amanda: The Civil War Letters of J.C. Morris to His Wife, Eddie Weller, San Jacinto College Commentator: Glen Sample Ely, Fort Worth |
Session 2 | Politics of the New Deal in Texas, Patrick Cox presiding, The University of Texas at Austin John Nance Garner: The New Deal, Anthony Champagne, University of Texas at Dallas The Civilian Conservation Corps and Racial Politics, Keith Joseph Volanto, Blinn Community College Commentator: Patrick Cox, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin |
Session 3 | JOINT SESSION WITH THE TEXAS ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Archeology of Military Sites, Pam Wheat presiding, Texas Archeological Society Concrete Fokker in Tarrant County, Alan Skinner, Archeological Resources Consultants Developing Fort Chadbourne as an Archeological/Historic Site, Doug Boyd, Prewitt and Associates Commentator: Pam Wheat, Texas Archeological Society |
Session 4 | JOINT SESSION WITH THE TEXAS BAPTIST HISTORICAL SOCIETY Dancing on the Global Stage: Texas Baptists and World Issues, Alan Lefever presiding, Texas Baptist Historical Society An Advocate for Peace: S. P. Brooks and the Peace Society Movement, Ellen Kuniyuki Brown, Baylor University Baptists beyond Borders: Truett, Texas, Baptists and the Creation of the Baptist World Alliance, Stephen M. Stookey, Fort Worth Commentator: Karen Bullock, Dallas Baptist University |
10:30 A.M. | Handbook of Texas Workshop, Doug Barnett presiding, Texas State Historical Association Meet with the Handbook editors to view the latest additions to the Handbook of Texas Online, discuss ideas for articles, and learn about new projects. |
Session 5 | Texas Weather, David Finfrock presiding, KXAS NBC 5 How Thick Are The Shucks? Texas Weather Lore, Kenneth W. Davis, Texas Tech University Some Facts about Texas Weather, George W. Bomar, Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Commentator: Ken Hendrickson, Midwestern State University |
Session 6 | Progressive Women and Reform, Elizabeth Alexander presiding, Texas Wesleyan University To Whom Could She Turn? Community, Kinship, and Divorcing Women, in Nineteenth-Century Texas, Francelle Pruitt, Rice University Connecticut to Texas: The Ministry of Mary Billings, First Ordained Woman Universalist in the Southwest, Barbara Coeyman, Unitarian Universalist Church The Waco Community's Response to its Legal Red Light District, Amy S. Balderach, Waco |
Session 7 | Archeology at Terán's Forts, Nancy Kenmotsu presiding, Texas Department of Transportation Fort Lipantitlán: Terán's Sentinel on the Nueces, Margaret Howard, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department; Luis Alvarado, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Architecture and Archeology of Fort Anahuac, Rachel Feit, Hicks & Company Commentator: Al McGraw, Texas Department of Transportation–Environmental |
Session 8 | Texans in World War II and the Cold War, Christopher Koontz presiding, United States Army Center of Military History Unquestioned Actions: World War II Experiences of an American Patriot, Brigadier General Edward N. Backus, Carlyn E. Kahl, McMurry University & McWhiney Foundation Press Lone Star under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, Kelly E. Crager, University of North Texas Blue Collars under Red Banners: Fort Worth Labor Unions Response to the Cold War, Mary Lynn Fehler, Texas Christian University |
Session 9 | JOINT SESSION WITH THE TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY "Please, Fence Me In": Women in Rodeo, Past and Present, Larry O'Neill presiding, San Antonio Who Left The Gate Open? Tex Austin's 1924 European Rodeo Tour, Jennifer E. Nielsen, El Paso Museum of Art Riding on the Edge: Mitzi Lucas Riley's Life as a Trick and Fancy Rider, Mitzi Riley, Aledo Open Range: Rodeo Cowgirls Take Their Sport to College, Sylvia Gann Mahoney, Vernon College |
Luncheon 12:00 NOON | Awards Luncheon, John Crain presiding, Summerlee Foundation Reading Will Ruin You, James Ward Lee, Texas Christian University Presentation of the: Induction of new Fellows of the Texas State Historical Association |
Session 10 | Sanctuaries in the Borderlands, Donald E. Chipman presiding, University of North Texas Charco Escondido: Tejano Haven from Rangers and Racists, 1870-1930, Carolina Castillo Crimm, Sam Houston State University Turning Apaches into Spaniards: The Forgotten Indian Reservations of the West Texas Frontier, Matthew Babcock, Southern Methodist University Apples, Coriander and Watermelons: Spanish Plantways to Texas, William W. Dunmire, University of New Mexico |
Session 11 2:30 P.M. | I'm Only a Woman ***SESSION CANCELED*** |
Session 12 | Texas Reconstruction and Beyond, Kelly McMichael presiding, University of North Texas The Confederate Pension System and Confederate Pensioners in Texas, Mary L. Wilson, University of North Texas Two Degrees of Rebellion: Amnesty and Texans after the Civil War, Brad Clampitt, University of North Texas Commentator: Marty Kuhlman, West Texas A&M University |
Session 13 | The Law Works in Mysterious Ways Its Wonders to Perform, Robert Utley presiding, Georgetown The 1918 Assassination of Judge Cullen Higgins, Bill O'Neal, Panola College Justice Comes to the Redlands: Ranger Dan Hines and the 1935 Clean Up of San Augustine, Jody Ginn, Hays County District Attorney's Office Texas Rangers Rein in Galveston Gambling, Robert Nieman, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame |
Session 14 | The Politics of Education Reform in Texas, A. M. "Bob" Aikin presiding, Commerce World War II and the Policies of School Reform in Texas, Gene B. Preuss, University of Houston–Downtown The Myth of Local Control in Texas Schools, Eric L. Grover, Texas A&M University–Commerce Commentator: Jack Hightower, Austin |
Session 15 | The Texas Literary Scene in the Late Twentieth Century, Steven L. Davis presiding, Texas State University–San Marcos Whatever Became of J. Frank Dobie? Paul C. Stone, University of Minnesota Who Took His Place? Mark Busby, Texas State University Commentator: Don Graham, The University of Texas at Austin |
Session 16 | Beyond Chronology: Interpreting Spanish Expedition Diaries with Emerging Methodologies, Adán Benavides presiding, The University of Texas at Austin Texts and Mentalités: Reading the Mendoza-López Expedition Diaries, Mariah Fátima Wade, The University of Texas at Austin Texts and More Texts: Reading Mendoza-López in Light of Secondary Sources, Brian Imhoff, Texas A&M University Commentator: Adán Benavides, The University of Texas at Austin |
Session 17 | You Just Can't Get Good Help These Days, Gwendolyn McMillan Lawe presiding, A. C. McMillan African American Museum Louis T. Wigfall Represents the Moore Sisters: Slaves Sue for Wages in Harrison County, Linda S. Hudson, East Texas Baptist University Martin Dies and the Marshall Housewives Rebellion, Gail Beil, Marshall Commentator: James M. Smallwood, Oklahoma State University–Emeritus |
Session 18 | From Lynching to the Death Penalty in Texas, William Carrigan presiding, Rowan University Paradigm Shifts in the Traditional Understandings of Lynching in America: A Texas Example, Pervis L. Brown, University of Michigan Folk Stories: The Historical Underpinnings of Contemporary Narratives of the Death Penalty in Texas, Melynda Janea Price, University of Michigan Commentator: William Carrigan, Rowan University |
Session 19 | JOINT SESSION WITH THE TEXAS ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION Government and Community: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary, Lesley W. Brunet presiding, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Voices from the Earth and Moon: The Community of Moonwalkers, Rebecca Wright, Johnson Space Center Enlisting the Grassroots to Keep the Community Green: U.S.D.A. Adaptation to Suburbanization and the Master Gardener's Program, Diane L. Ware, Baylor College of Medicine Selling West Texas Water Resources: Water Mining or Water Rustling? Joann Pospisil, Baylor College of Medicine |
6:30 P.M. | Presidential Reception honoring Incoming President Robert Wooster, hosted by the Amon Carter Museum |
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2005 | |
Breakfast | Book Lovers Breakfast, Al Lowman, San Marcos, presiding |
Breakfast | Graduate Student Breakfast, Watson Arnold, TSHA Board of Directors, presiding |
8:00 A.M. | Silent Auction Viewing and Bidding |
8:00 A.M. | Spanish Borderlands Meeting |
Session 20 | Teaching the Spanish Borderlands through Maps, David J. Weber presiding, Southern Methodist University Teaching Borderlands through Service-Learning & GIS Mapping Technology, Carla Mendiola, San Antonio College Understanding Landscape Dynamics: An Exercise with Maps, William E. Doolittle, The University of Texas at Austin Mexico Then and Now: Internet Mapping for the Humanities Project, Nora McMillan, San Antonio College |
Session 21 | Getting By: Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Texas, Cynthia Brandimarte presiding, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Gibbs Brothers Mercantile and Early Texas Commerce, Mac Woodward, Sam Houston Memorial Museum Made In Texas Jane Karotkin, Friends of the Governor's Mansion Commentator: Cynthia Brandimarte, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department |
Session 22 | Struggle for Rights: Black Populists and Texas Suffragettes, Gregg Cantrell presiding, Texas Christian University The People's Court: Texas Populists and Black Jury Service, Robert H. Butts, Texas Christian University Fighting on the Home Front, James B. Seymour, Cy-Fair College Commentator: Benjamin H. Johnson, Southern Methodist University |
Session 23 | JOINT SESSION WITH THE TEXAS CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY Indigenous Catholic Ritual and Iconography: Material Culture in Mexico and Texas, Anthony Quiroz presiding, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi A Grave Affair: Celebrating the Days of the Dead in Oaxaca, Paula Biedenharn, Carey Rote, Barbra Riley, Pamela S. Meyer, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi Restored to Glory: The Colonial-Style Retablos and the Restoration of San Fernando Colonial Church of 1783, John C. Watson, Jr., Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi Commentator: Anthony Quiroz, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi |
Session 24 | Modern Texas GOP: Rhetoric and Activism, Thomas R. Phillips presiding, Texas Supreme Court Foreshadows of the "Gipper": Campaign Culture, Anti-Liberalism, and the Changing Nature of Texas Politics in the 1960s, Sean Cunningham, University of Florida William P. Clements, Jr. and the Modern Texas Republican Party, Charles R. Schultz, Texas A&M University Commentator: Ricky Dobbs, Texas A&M University–Commerce |
Session 25 | Music and Words in the Spanish Borderlands, Julianna Barr presiding, University of Florida Borderlands Latino Balladeer Alejandro Escovedo: Social Consciousness, Metaphor, and a Musical Gotcha, Paul Smith, Pittsburg State University Writing the Border: Eagle Pass, the Rio Grande News & the Discourse of Mexicans, 1906-08, Roberto Calderón, University of North Texas Revising the Captivity Narrative, Andrea Tinnemeyer, Utah State University |
Session 26 | Worth a Thousand Words: Exploring Texas History through Photographs, Shelly Henley Kelly presiding, University of Houston–Clear Lake Texan Photographers and Photographic Processes of the Nineteenth Century, Gerrianne Schaad, University of Texas at San Antonio Transparent Media Meets Digital Access: A Twenty-First Century Romance, Linda Peterson, The University of Texas at Austin You Are There: Using Photographs as Primary Resources, Carol Roark, Dallas Public Library |
Session 27 | Route 66 across the Texas Panhandle, Joyce Roach presiding, Keller The Texas Route 66 Historic Site Survey Project, Greg Smith, Texas Historical Commission Grass Roots Historic Preservation along Route 66 in Texas, Delbert Trew, Alanreed Eating Up Route 66: Foodways of Motorists Crossing the Texas Panhandle, 1920-1965, T. Lindsay Baker, Tarleton State University |
Session 28 | Barbara Jordan: Her Life and Influence, P. J. Pierce presiding, Austin, Texas Max Sherman, LBJ School of Public Affairs |
Session 29 | JOINT SESSION WITH THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Legal Rhetoric of Texas Secession, Thomas R. Phillips presiding, South Texas College of Law Judges as Political Orators: The 1860 Secession Debate between Justices O. M. Roberts and James H. Bell, William J. Chriss, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi A "Brief Discussion" on "the Transcendent Issue before the Country": Senator/Chief Justice John Hemphill's Secession Speech in the U.S. Senate, Jim Paulsen, South Texas College of Law Commentator: Thomas R. Phillips, South Texas College of Law |
Luncheon | Women in Texas History Luncheon American Heroines, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison |
1:30 P.M. | Business Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, John Crain presiding |
Session 30 | Battling Lynching and Racism Reform Efforts in Texas: What Worked? What Didn't Work?, Patricia Bernstein presiding, Bellaire The Waco Horror: The Town, the Lynching, the Investigator, and the NAACP, Patricia Bernstein, Bellaire Conceptualizing a Negro Renaissance in Texas, 1916-1936, Amilcar Shabazz, University of Alabama What to Wear to a Lynching: The Language of Recreation in Anti-Lynching Commentaries, Terry Schulte, University of Chicago |
Session 31 | The United States–Mexican Borderlands: Politics, Soldiering, and Race on the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Frontier, Samuel Watson presiding, United States Military Academy, West Point "We Ought To Mingle Races": Edward Ashley Bowen Phelps, Miscegenation, and the "Glorious Combination,", Ricardo A. Herrera, Mount Union College Expediency, Humanity, and Revenge: The Foundation of Prisoner of War Policy during the Mexican War, Paul J. Springer, Texas A&M University Men Are Dying Fast: Black Soldiers on the Postwar Mexican Frontier, Richard M. Reid, University of Guelph, Ontario |
Session 32 | Whose Revolution Was It, Anyway?, James L. Haley presiding, Austin Concerns of Ordinary People Caught Up in the Runaway Scrape, H. W. Brands, The University of Texas Land Speculators and Their Role in Causing the Revolution, Jack Jackson, Austin Hispanic/Tejano Considerations in the Texas Revolution: Texas in Larger Context of Mexican Civil War, Guadalupe Barrera, Texas Parks and Wildlife The Unanimous Declaration of What?, James L. Haley, Austin |
Session 33 | Homenaje to Félix D. Almaráz Jr.: Texas Scholar, Teacher, and Gentleman, Arnoldo De León presiding, Angelo State University Félix D. Almaráz and Hispanic Scholarship in Texas, Gilberto M. Hinojosa, University of Incarnate Word "Once My Student Always My Student": Don Félix the Professor, David Urbano, Victoria Independent School District Félix D. Almaráz Jr.: The Man and His Times, Gilbert Cruz, Glendale Community College & Arizona State University West |
Session 34 | The Branch Davidian "Massacre": Narratives, Roger M. Olien presiding, University of Texas–Permian Basin The Davidian Seventh-day Adventists: 1929-2005, Kenneth G. C. Newport, Liverpool Hope University College The Stories of Waco, David Tabb Stewart, Southwestern University Autobiographies of Three Surviving Branch Davidians: An Initial Report, Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University |
Session 35 | Texas Routes to the Goldfields, Mike Cox presiding, Austin North Texas Argonauts, E. I. "Jack" Wiesman, Southlake The South Texas Argonauts: Cholera and Other Inconveniences, Charles M. Robinson, South Texas Community College Commentator: Paula Marks, St. Edwards University |
Session 36 | Manifestations of Jim Crow in Twentieth-Century Texas, John Britt presiding, Lee College Courts, Confrontation, and Compliance: Desegregation in the Crosby Independent School District, Ronald D. Traylor, University of Houston Recollections: The Beaumont Race Riot of 1943, Pam A. Lippold, Baytown Commentator: Cary D. Wintz, Texas Southern University |
Session 37 | Strategies for Strength: African-Americans in Twentieth-Century Texas, Robert Fairbanks presiding, University of Texas at Arlington Community Pride, the "New Negro," and Black College Football in Texas in the 1920s, Rob Fink, Texas Tech University Regression in a Progressive City: Shades of Segregation in Austin, Texas, 1919-1929, Robert H. Duke, Western Michigan University Fighting for Access: Race Relations in Dallas, 1960 to the Present, W. Marvin Dulaney, College of Charleston |
Session 38 | Fort Worth History and Preservation, Watson Arnold presiding, Cook Children's Hospital John Peter Smith: Pioneer Philanthropist, David Murph, Texas Christian University Preservation of Historic Architecture in Fort Worth, Jerre Tracey, Historic Fort Worth Commentator: Judy Cohen, Fort Worth |
Session 39 | Historia Mínima de la Comunidad Mexicana del Norte de Tejas, Claudia Torrescano presiding, Dallas Carlos García de Alba Zepeda, Consulado General de México |
4:00 P.M. | Walter Prescott Webb Historical Society Annual Meeting and Chapter Reports, Mary Kelley presiding, Lamar University |
4:00 P.M. | TSHA Publications Workshop |
6:00 P.M. | Silent Auction Bidding Closes |
Dinner | Robert Wooster presiding, President, Texas State Historical Association Isaac Watts Burton: Eleven Glorious Years in Texas, 1832 to 1843, John Crain, Summerlee Foundation |
SATURDAY, March 5, 2005 | |
Breakfast | Larry McNeill presiding, Vice-President, Texas State Historical Association Civil War Photography on the Rio Grande Frontier, Jerry Thompson, Texas A&M International University |
Session 40 | Sex and Saddle Leather: Another Aspect of Life on the Trail, Al Lowman presiding, San Marcos Public Order and Private Virtue: Some Highlights and Red Lights from San Antonio's Gaudy Past, Terry Thomas, Austin Community College Riding the Petticoat Trail, Lael Morgan, University of Texas at Arlington The Law West of the Trinity, or The Saloon and the City, Rick Selcer, Cedar Valley College & Tarrant County College |
Session 41 | Crisis in the Lone Star State: The Impact of the Second World War on Texans, Keith J. Volanto presiding, Blinn College A University at War: How the Second World War Impacted Baylor University, Kevin M. Brady, Texas Christian University From the Factory to the Front: The Twelfth Armored Division's Harvester Battalion, Robert P. Wettemann, Jr., McMurry University Coming In On a Wing and a Prayer: Music of World War II, Archie McDonald, Stephen F. Austin State University |
Session 42 | Motivations of Texas Soldiers during the Civil War, Stephen Maizlish presiding, University of Texas at Arlington Texans Can Never Be Slaves: The War Between Texas Troops and Black Federals, Jeffery S. Prushankin, Pennsylvania State University, Abington To Defend the Sacred Soil of Texas: Tom Green and the Texas Cavalry in the Red River Campaign, Gary D. Joiner, Louisiana State University at Shreveport Doing the Only Honorable Thing: Motivation for Service in Hood's Texas Brigade, Susannah U. Bruce, Sam Houston State University |
Session 43 | Conservation History (Video Presentation), Andrew Sansom presiding, Texas State University Over the River and through the Woods: A Trip through the Conservation History of Texas, Andrew Sansom, Texas State University David Todd, Conservation History Association of Texas |
Session 44 | History in Action: The College Classroom in 2005, Stephen S. Cure presiding, Texas State Historical Association The Songs of a Troubled Soul: Making It in Hell, Alisa M. William, Lee College The Menil Collection: Originality of Art, Christine Kowrach, University of Houston–Downtown Viva Gonzales: A Personal Encounter with the Mexican Revolution, John Britt, Lee College |
Session 45 | The Newspaper Reporte's View of Texas History, David Dary presiding, Norman, Oklahoma Jim Harris, Hobbs, New Mexico; Art Chapman, Fort Worth Star Telegram; Ross McSwain, San Angelo Standard-Times; Amy Dorsett, San Antonio Express-News; Henry Wolff, Jr., Victoria Advocate; Billy Porterfield, formerly of Austin American-Statesman; Bill Walraven, Corpus Christi Caller-Times (Retired) |
Session 46 | There's Coal in Them Thar' Hills: Mining in Twentieth-Century Texas, LeAnna S. Biles presiding, W. K. Gordon Center Thurber, Texas: Geologic Anomaly, Mineral Riches, Stephen S. Hart, Colorado School of Mines Beyond Thurber: W. K. Gordon's Search for Coal in Trans-Pecos Texas, Richard Francaviglia, University of Texas at Arlington From Smokestacks to Oil Derricks: The Social Impact of Industrialization in Bridgeport, Texas, 1900-1920, Lisa Berry, University of Texas at Arlington |
Session 47 | Culture, Politics, & Gender: The New Historians of the Border & Laredo, Diana G. Rodriguez presiding, Lewisville Journeying through Laredo: A Century of Mexican Travelers, 1830-1930, Armando Villarreal y Talamantes, University of Texas at Arlington Two Flags Entwined: Transborder Activists and the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in South Texas, 1900-1950, Gabriela González, University of Texas at San Antonio Tracking Tequileros: The Bloody Origins of a Border Ballad, George T. Díaz, Southern Methodist University |
Session 48 | Presentation of the Annual C. M. Caldwell Memorial Awards and General Business Meeting of the Walter Prescott Webb Historical Society, Clifton Caldwell presiding, Albany |
Session 49 | Phi Alpha Theta, Richard B. McCaslin presiding, University of North Texas Panther City: The Unsung Hero's of the Fort Worth Volunteer Fire Department 1870-1890, Jeff R. Tucker, Texas Christian University The Fall of Santa Fe, Michael Fairbanks, Midwestern State University Commentator: Mark Barringer, Stephen F. Austin State University |
1:00 P.M. | TOUR OF HISTORIC THURBER AND THE W. K. GORDON CENTER FOR INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF TEXAS Join historians Harwood Hinton, professor emeritus at Arizona University, and T. Lindsay Baker, associate professor at Tarleton State University and director of the W. K. Gordon Center for the Industrial History of Texas, for a tour of the former industrial town Thurber and the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas. The tour will focus on the industrial history of what was once the most important mine site in Texas and one of the first towns in the state to be totally electrified and unionized. The Gordon Center is dedicated to the preservation of the history of Thurber and industrial development in Texas and the American Southwest. For more information about Thurber and the Gordon Center, visit the following web site: http://www.tarleton.edu/~gordoncenter/index.html. Buses will leave the hotel at 1:00 P.M. Dinner will be served at the Smokestack Restaurant located in the Mercantile historic building and will return to the hotel by 7:00 P.M. |
